From: mbottorff@lshelby.com   
      
   Michael R N Dolbear  wrote:   
      
   > "Michelle Bottorff"  wrote   
   >   
   > > I still haven't figured out what authors' readers I should be targetting   
   > > Cantata and Pavane at.   
   > >   
      
   > Michelle West/ Michelle Sagara West   
   > C J Cherryh   
   > Janny Wurts   
   > even David D Friedman (the non-standard leadership).   
      
   Thank you!   
      
   > Is Goodreads any help ?   
      
   Any help in what way?  They have this beautiful "target at a particular   
   author's readers" mechanism, which seems to me to be likely to be a   
   great boon, if well used.  But if they provide any tools for figuring   
   out which authors will be the best match for your book, I don't know   
   about it.   
      
   If you mean does it help to sell books -- I'm dubious that the   
   "self-serve" ads accomplish much. On the other hand, you can do a lot of   
   playing around with them for hardly any money at all.  Mostly I'm hoping   
   that I can manage to learn something from the experience.   
      
   > If you agree with the above, what other authors cluster with them either on   
   > Amazon or Goodreads ?   
      
   I don't disagree with them.  I can't remember what I've read by Michelle   
   West, if anything, but I think I'm seeing where you come up with C J   
   Cherry and Janny Wurts.  I can see David too, although it's kind of a   
   more sideways sort of connection.   
      
   ... So how does one going about figuring out which authors "cluster"?   
      
      
      
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